Tag Archives: New York Islanders

The Town of Hempstead accepted as complete the 6,500-page draft environmental statement for the $3.7 billion Lighthouse project Tuesday. The move clears the way for a public hearing Aug. 4 on the plan to redevelop 150 acres in Uniondale. Supervisor Kate Murray ...

Roy Boe, the man who helped bring the National Hockey League to Long Island, died Sunday in his home state of Connecticut. Boe was the general partner of the New York Islanders in the 1970s, but was forced to sell ...

The Long Island Regional Planning Council will hold a public hearing dedicated to the Lighthouse development on Tuesday. Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray is scheduled to attend. So are members of the Lighthouse team. LIBN spoke to Murray about Hempstead’s role ...

The New York Islanders finished with the worst record in the National Hockey League this year, but the fans’ ire has not been focused on General Manager Garth Snow or his band of rag-tag hockey players who lost games on ...

The Stanley Cup finals are nearly set, as the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Eastern Conference championship last night and the Detroit Red Wings, who hold a commanding lead in their series, try to wrap up the Western title tonight in ...

After some last-minute schedule shifts, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, developer Scott Rechler and Islanders owner Charles Wang all made it to the Marriott across from the Nassau Coliseum parking lot for a top-secret Monday morning meeting on the Hub ...

Last Sunday’s front page story in Newsday was very disturbing to many people who have worked hard to promote Long Island as a good place to bring sports events. The story said that the New York Islanders’ owner, Charles Wang, ...

Bruce Springsteen seemed more at home at the Nassau Coliseum than the New York Islanders. Then again, he played in front of a packed house. The music legend called the Coliseum “a great rock and roll hall” and said it ...

Judging by the lack of attendance at the Nassau Coliseum perhaps no one really cares, but it looks like the old barn on Hempstead Turnpike will host playoff hockey in April. No, the National Hockey League isn’t letting every team ...

For nearly a decade the New York Islanders were the model franchise in professional sports. The team won four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s and reached the National Hockey League finals five years in a row. Tickets ...